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CenterStage Staff — Sun, 13 May 2012 00:15:28 +0000

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Congratulations to the following athletes for the 2012-2013 Season!

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CenterStage Cheer & Dance Senior 4.2 – Bringin’ the Heat 2010 1st Place

CenterStage Staff — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 23:44:26 +0000

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CenterStage Senior 4.2 – 2012 COA Nationals 1st Place Win – DAY 1

CenterStage Staff — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 18:37:18 +0000

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YOLO

That’s how Cheerleaders from Miami show H.E.A.R.T! A real display of working as a Team. Never Give Up!
This Performance is #1 of a clean sweep weekend at the 2012 COA Grand National Championships in Orlando, FL at the Gaylord Palms Resort.

A group of Miami Dade and Broward Cheerleaders who all love to cheer, excel in their Classes at School, and love cheerleading at CenterStage, putting on a show for their Family, and their Family of Stars, Cheerleading at CenterStage is a Passion, not a Hobby for this team of stars who just Love to Cheer!

Miami Cheerleading – CenterStage Juniors Level 2 – 2012 COA Nationals 1st Place Win – Day 1

CenterStage Staff — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 18:30:31 +0000

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All year long you ladies have rocked it, and now you can rock your jackets. Lets keep working at it. Amazing job once again, but let’s make it even better because now we have to stay on Top!!!

That’s how Cheerleaders from Miami show H.E.A.R.T!!! A real display of working as a Team. Never Give Up!
This Performance is #1 of a clean sweep weekend at the 2012 COA Grand National Championships in Orlando, FL at the Gaylord Palms Resort.
A group of Miami Dade and Broward Cheerleaders who all love to Cheer, excel in their Classes at School, and love Cheerleading at CenterStage, putting on a show for their Family, and their Family of Stars; Cheerleading at CenterStage is a Passion, not a Hobby for this team of Stars who just Love to Cheer!

CenterStage Senior 4.2 – 2012 COA Nationals 1st Place Win – DAY 2

CenterStage Staff — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 15:40:34 +0000

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YOLO

That’s how Cheerleaders from Miami show H.E.A.R.T! A real display of working as a Team. Never Give Up!
This Performance is #2 of a clean sweep weekend at the 2012 COA Grand National Championships in Orlando, FL at the Gaylord Palms Resort.

CenterStage Juniors Level 2 – 2012 COA Nationals 1st Place Win – Day 2

CenterStage Staff — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 15:26:18 +0000

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All year long you ladies have rocked it, and now you can rock your jackets. Lets keep working at it. Amazing job once again, but let’s make it even better because now we have to stay on Top!!!

That’s how Cheerleaders from Miami show H.E.A.R.T!!! A real display of working as a Team. Never Give Up!
This Performance is #2 of a clean sweep weekend at the 2012 COA Grand National Championships in Orlando, FL at the Gaylord Palms Resort.
A group of Miami Dade and Broward Cheerleaders who all love to Cheer, excel in their Classes at School, and love Cheerleading at CenterStage, putting on a show for their Family, and their Family of Stars; Cheerleading at CenterStage is a Passion, not a Hobby for this team of Stars who just Love to Cheer!

Cheerleading isn’t a Sport?

CenterStage Staff — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 17:10:39 +0000

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By Lizette Nodal
“Cheerleading isn’t a sport.” That is something us cheerleaders hear on a daily basis. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion and I personally have learned to not care what they say, but the real question is whether they know all the information in order to determine whether it is a sport or not in their eyes. Cheerleading has taught me many things that I would have not learned if I were in a “real” sport. It has taught me that I must trust the other people in my team. In any other sport you can simply do what you need to do and succeed, unlike cheerleading that you must rely on everybody else in the team in order to win or in order to hit a perfect routine. You must trust your bases to catch you when you fall; to catch you no matter what happens, even if it means they end up on the floor and hurting themselves so that you are safe and unharmed. You must believe that the person going two counts before you in tumbling will go on the right count and that the other going after you will do the same because if not, there will be a bunch of injured cheerleaders in the middle of the mat. You must have faith that the cheerleader on one side of the mat will make it to other side on time to pick you up or be picked up.

In cheerleading I learned that nothing is handed to you… Nothing. You have to work for what you want. You want to be as good as your idol? You better believe that you will be in that gym every single day working on your skills and flexibility. You risk lots of things; sleep, delicious food, vacations and even your social life but if it is something that you truly want, none of that matters. You want to be in center for jumps or stunts? You will be sitting in splits all day. You want to have that last tumbling pass? You will be in the gym everyday working on it and you will fall on your knees, face and even break some bones. Your body will be about to give up yet you tell yourself “Pain is candy, eat it up” because that’s just how bad you want it. It’s something that you practice not until you get it right, but until you can’t get it wrong. If it’s something that’s not really worth working for, then almost everyone can do it; but it’s not. We live for those two minute and thirty seconds we get on that mat and let me tell you how that is the absolute best feeling ever. How much time and effort we have put in our practices shows in those two and a half minutes; No second chances, no re-do’s, no half time. One and done.

It has also taught me to get over my fears. There is no room or time for being scared. You must believe that your coach will not make you do something unless they are certain that you can do it, now all it takes is to get over the fear. There comes a point where you want it so bad that you forget to be afraid and once you do it, it becomes second nature to you. There comes a time when you finally get tired of not having something and your dedication and want for it overcomes everything else. You work so hard for the things that you want that nothing matters to you; mistakes, injuries, fears, nothing. You become so determined that you settle for nothing less than perfect. You don’t want to just hit a stunt or land your tumbling, you want to perfect it and keep on until you can practically do it in your sleep.

You have a love-hate relationship with it. You hate practicing in 100 degree weather, and practicing when you can see your breath is no fun either. You hate morning practices; people will be grouchy. You hate having saturday practices; there goes your entire day. You hate when people miss practice or when you get injured and have to sit out for a while; but you love hitting your stunts and you love competing and you love the inside jokes you have with your teammates who you love even more.
Cheerleading is extremely dangerous, just like any other sport. I have personally had many injuries and caused many injuries myself in my six years of cheering. I have had surgery, I have dislocated bones, sprained almost every bone, I have caused nosebleeds and I knocked a person’s tooth out. Just as any other sport, you get injured in cheerleading. The only difference is that we love it so much that we hide our injuries so that we don’t miss practice. Our mind is set to be successful and perfect therefore we suck it up. Many injuries have caused cheerleaders to never be able to do physical activities ever again. That’s how I learned that nothing lasts forever and whatever you do, give it 100% because that may be the last time that you can do it.

The experiences you get from competitions are like no other. Knowing that you put your heart in that performance and you left it there on that mat in spite of how nervous you were and how much you doubted yourself. You have to put on a show no matter what happens. Your job is to amuse people no matter what; if something goes wrong you are not to let them see anything but a smile on your face because you have realized that you have worked so hard in all of your practices, you have never missed a practice even if you had other things you to do. Now all it takes is to show the judges and everyone else all of the time, effort and dedication you have put into this sport.

People say you don’t get anywhere with cheerleading. You don’t but the experiences and lessons learned from it are priceless. So to everyone who has got under my skin saying that cheerleading is not a sport, I apologize. To everyone who still believes that cheerleading isn’t a sport, you’re right. It’s much more than that; it’s a lifestyle, it’s a passion, it’s a lesson; and if that means that in the past six years I have not been an athlete or in a real sport in exchange for doing what I love and learning all these lessons along the way I’ll take it… in a heartbeat. Now whether you believe Cheerleading is a sport or not, that’s up to you.

By: Lizette Nodal

Cheerleading a Sport?

CenterStage Staff — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 06:55:54 +0000

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Brought to you by the USA Today publication.

Sport vs. activity? It’s a tossup

Is cheerleading a sport?

Most cheerleaders say yes. Most states say no. The U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights has said no since 1975 but is examining the issue.

This much is beyond dispute: Most high school and college cheerleaders are genuinely athletic. Many have finely honed gymnastic skills.

Susan Loomis, spirit rules liaison for the National Federation of High School Athletic Associations, says 17-20 states call cheerleading a sport. “The number is always in flux,” she says. “I can’t tell you the exact number, and that’s my job.”

But even in most of those states, Loomis says, cheer teams are traditional sideline squads most of the time — save, typically, for a season-end competition. She says only Michigan and West Virginia have a season with weekly competitions and competitive cheer teams separate from sideline squads.

The Michigan High School Athletic Association asserts that competitive cheerleading, as conducted there, “meets all reasonable criteria for a sport.” It has asked the Office for Civil Rights for guidance in determining if cheerleading can be considered a sport under Title IX, the federal law that prohibits sex discrimination in education. OCR, which has asked Michigan for more information, is considering it, says Mary Frances O’Shea, OCR’s national coordinator for Title IX Athletics.

Meantime, many states where cheerleading is most popular do not call it a sport and don’t want to make it one. “The people who run cheerleading are happy to have it as an important activity that is not defined as a sanctioned sport,” says Ronnie Carter, president of the national federation. “In states where it is a sport, teams can’t go on to national competitions.”

Carter, also president of the Tennessee association, says the people who run cheer in his state are among those who don’t want it called a sport. “Then they’d be subject to state eligibility rules on transfers and physicals and academics,” Carter says. “Now they have the best of both worlds — they have something that seems like a sport, but they get to kind of follow their own rules.”

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USCA – NOVA 2012

CenterStage Staff — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 06:53:27 +0000

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Youth Level 2 – Twinkles

Senior All-Girl Level 2 – Ladies

Juniors Level 2 – Super Stars

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Cheer History

CenterStage Staff — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 06:34:14 +0000

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Cheer History

1880s: Organized cheers begin at Princeton University football games

1890s: Yell squads use megaphones at University of Minnesota

1920s: Cheer squads put tumbling execises and pyramids into routines

1940s: Mostly male activity gets more and more females during World War II

1948: Cheer pioneer Lawrence “Herkie” Herkimer forms national association

1978: CBS televises collegiate cheering championships and a genre is born

1980s: Stunts and pyramids grow more complex; safety guidelines grow apace

1990s: Dance squads, an offshoot of cheerleading, become increasingly popular

2002: Estimated 3 million cheerleaders and 2 million dance team members in USA

Cheerleading in the USA: A Sport and an Industry

CenterStage Staff — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 06:32:05 +0000

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Cheerleading in the USA: A sport and an industryBy Erik Brady, USA TODAYThey are teams in their own right these days, not so different in some respects from the football and basketball teams for which they traditionally cheer. College and high school cheerleaders compete for national championships. They risk terrible injury. They get recruited for college scholarships. And, in some cases, they put in more practice hours than the football team. If that sounds like the world turned upside down, consider this: In 2001, Varsity Spirit Corp. sold its Riddell Group Division, a leading maker of football helmets.Forget the American archetype of blond cheerleader in tight sweater pining for the muscled quarterback. The world of cheer no longer means sideline squads that exist solely to support other teams.”Football is not growing,” says Jeffrey Webb, president and CEO. “Cheerleading is. We looked at it and decided we were better off alone.”You can argue whether cheerleading is a sport — as many as 20 state high school organizations say it is — but not whether it is a business. Shout this into the nearest megaphone: Cheerleading, that uniquely American exemplar of earnest enthusiasm, is now an industry.

There are about 3 million cheerleaders in the USA, and perhaps half as many more on dance teams. Varsity Spirit, largest of about 50 companies catering to their needs, had revenue approaching $150 million last year. American Cheerleader magazine made its debut in 1994 and now boasts 200,000 in circulation with readership of 1 million.What’s going on? When babyboomers were growing up, cheerleading was a quasi-athletic opportunity for girls who had few full-fledged ones. Title IX changed that. One might have expected fewer cheerleaders 30 years later. Instead, to borrow the word of a character from the 2000 teen flick Bring It On, we live these days in a “cheer-ocracy.”An estimated half-million cheerleaders attend cheer camps each summer. The past 10 years has seen the rise of All Star programs, in which kids as young as 6 begin intensive cheer programs with an emphasis on gymnastics. All Star programs exist apart from schools, like AAU basketball teams: They cheer only to compete. By the count of Gwen Holtsclaw, president of Cheer Limited, there are about 1,500 All Star programs in the USA operating in 613 gyms.These burgeoning programs feed high schools and colleges. The University of Kentucky, which awards full in-state tuition scholarships, is a 12-time national champ. Jokes cheer adviser T. Lynn Williamson, “We’re trying to be an inspiration to the basketball team.”Hollered alumni

Psst. Don’t look now, but we live these days in Cheer Nation. We get morning news from Katie Couric (cheerleader, Yorktown High, Arlington, Va., circa 1970s). We elect George W. Bush (cheerleader, Phillips Academy; Andover, Mass., circa 1960s). We watch Oscar winner Halle Berry (cheerleader, Bedford, Ohio, High, circa 1980s).

Other former cheerleaders operate behind the scenes. Corporate America often seeks ex-cheerleaders, especially for sales jobs, where success goes to attractive, energetic and personable people who know how to work a crowd.

“I’ve got a note on my desk right now from a pharmaceutical company with a sales opening,” Williamson says. “I get these calls regularly. Cheerleaders know how to set goals and how to work hard to attain them. They are competitive, and they understand personality and body language.”

Bush and Berry manned megaphones in a quainter time, when cheerleaders pulled for their school teams, long before the notion of All Star cheer squads for tykes. Traditional cheer teams at high schools and colleges still exist primarily to root for school teams, but many also compete on their own.

Holtsclaw counts 72 national or regional competitions for college, high school or youth teams. That’s up from eight in 1988.

Male cheerleaders are indispensable at the highest level of competitive cheer for catching and throwing. But in the wider world of cheer, by Holtsclaw’s estimate, 95% are female, down from 98%.

Like boxing, competitions are run by rival sanctioning bodies. The biggest, under the auspices of Varsity Spirit, is the Universal Cheerleading Association (UCA), whose competitions are staples on ESPN. Twelve broadcasts in 2001 were watched by an average of 445,000 households, about the same audience drawn by billiards.

The Chick-fil-A Collegiate Cheer and Dance Competition, run by the National Cheerleading Association (NCA), will air Saturday afternoon on CBS (2 ET). It was taped this month in Daytona Beach, Fla. There were 183 teams — 110 cheer and 73 dance — competing in eight cheer and three dance divisions. They qualified by reputation or by sending a video.

She kept dancin’

One particular dance routine you won’t see on TV, though it already is the stuff of legend in cheer and dance circles. It had everything: True grit, high drama — and bare breasts.

Carla Sanchez calls herself very modest, the most modest person she knows. “You have no idea,” she says. “Not even my mother has seen me naked.”

Imagine the dilemma she faced when she and 17 other members of the New York University dance team began the 2-minute, 15-second routine they had worked on for months in hopes of securing a national championship. All was fine for about 15 seconds — until the plastic snap on Sanchez’s spandex top inexplicably came undone.

Sanchez had an instant to make a very public decision: Quickly cover up, as every fiber in her preacher’s-daughter body wanted — or just keep dancin’.

It is the kind of plot twist you might find on Fox’s Boston Public: Sanchez danced those last two minutes topless in front of astounded onlookers. She believed that if she were out of sync for even a moment, her teammates would be assessed a major deduction, dooming their dream. So she soldiered on, never missing a beat.

You can guess the rest. NYU won its division, and Sanchez was acclaimed a hero. “That was very brave,” said co-captain Carolyn Comparato. “She’s a rock star.”

Most in the audience were fellow competitors or parents, true believers in the culture of cheer and dance, and they understood instinctively: She was taking one for the team.

A few men hooted and tossed coins onstage. But the atmosphere was more admiring than salacious.

“I can’t believe I just danced topless!” Sanchez cried. She asked teammates if there would be a deduction for her uniform coming undone. “We’ll get bonus points!” suggested one.

Michelle Allison, head judge for dance, explained there was no deduction for the uniform failure. But neither would there have been a deduction had Sanchez broken ranks and quickly righted her costume. Being out of sync is a major deduction in almost every instance, Allison said, “but not in an extreme case like this.”

No one seemed to know the exception to the rule because no one could remember anything like it happening before — except in the movies. The opening number in Bring It On, No. 1 at the box office in late summer 2000, features a high-kicking cheer routine in which actress Kirsten Dunst loses her top (demurely, in PG-13 fashion).

She wakes up screaming: It is only a nightmare. Sanchez’s nightmare was real — not so much life imitating art as choreography trumping a teen movie script.

The University of North Texas charges on stage. The music begins. Human pyramids form as if by magic. Cheerleaders make tumbling passes and fly through the air. One thing is missing amid all the radiant, raucous rah-rah.

Um, no football teams. Or, as GQ writer Jim Nelson puts it, “Nothing to cheer but cheer itself.” This is off-putting only for the uninitiated. For believers, it is as it should be.

‘We cheer for us’

“We’re always cheering for them,” says Liana Sheintal, a senior cheerleader at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and by “them” she means GW’s basketball teams. “This is the one time we get to cheer for us.”

Sheintal says this as she watches her teammates perform. She has an arm in a sling; she broke her shoulder blade a day before during practice. Cheerleading can be risky business: Some cheerleaders in Daytona Beach performed with wrapped ankles and knees.

“I am the coach for cheer and adviser for dance,” says Jamie Bero of Clarion (Pa.) University. “If there is a conflict in practice times, I go to cheer. You can’t get killed dancing. Safety is our top concern.”

Memphis coach Cheri Ganong-Robinson says it is important that schools have the right equipment, like harnesses for learning jumps safely. She runs a program in which cheerleaders get full in-state tuition scholarships.

American Cheerleader lists 225 colleges and junior colleges that offer full and partial scholarships — from Penn State, which awards $1,500 annually to cheerleaders who maintain a 3.0 GPA, to Three Rivers Community College, Poplar Bluff, Mo., which awards a dozen full-tuition scholarships.

Cheerleaders work hard for the money. At Memphis, they practice three hours a day, five days a week. Add in games and appearances and cheerleaders spend 20-25 hours a week at their craft — and far more before big competitions.

“The big joke on campus is that we practice more than the basketball team,” Ganong-Robinson says.

It’s no joke: NCAA rules limit teams to 20 hours a week. But cheerleading isn’t an NCAA-sponsored sport. It’s more like an odd hybrid of gymnastics and show biz — Mary Lou Retton meets Bob Fosse.

“College cheer is all about athletics,” says Maryland cheer coach Tina Simijoski, who directs the NFL’s Baltimore Ravens cheerleaders. “The pros are more about glamour. They’re two different things.”

Brought to us by the: USA Today publication

Cheerleading to be a Championship Sport???

CenterStage Staff — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 06:23:52 +0000

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Bring it on! Debate continues in the rally to make cheerleading a championship sport

BROUGHT TO US By: DAILY MAIL REPORTER

It’s an American tradition that has been mocked in movie spoofs like Bring It On and Fired Up!, but cheerleading proponents are calling out louder than ever to have the activity taken seriously – as a championship sport.

Two groups are asking the National Collegiate Athletic Association to recognise competitive cheerleading in its emerging sport programme, formed to encourage universities to add women’s sports.

The development would be the first step in allowing athletic programmes to begin recruiting cheerleaders as scholarship athletes and fully finance teams competing for national titles.

Competitive cheer: Two groups are asking the National Collegiate Athletic Association to recognise cheer as an ‘emerging sport’

The New York Times reports proposals from USA Cheer and the National Collegiate Athletics and Tumbling Association involve ‘athletic displays that incorporate elements of traditional cheerleading, like flips and pyramids’.

Both proposals include longer and more standardised competitions, uniforms for competitors similar to volleyball players, and, in what may come as a surprise to some – bars cheering for sports teams.

The push for recognition came in response to a federal judge’s ruling last July, which stated Quinnipiac University’s competitive cheerleading team did not meet Title IX guidelines – the federal law banning gender discrimination in education. The judge also ruled cheerleading was ‘too underdeveloped’ to be considered a sport.

While the groups share similar aims to unravel this perception, they disagree on how to score and organise cheerleading as an official ‘emerging sport’.

Technical skill: The development would be the first step in allowing athletic programmes to begin recruiting cheerleaders as scholarship athletes

The National Collegiate Athletics and Tumbling Association, which is comprised of six competing universities and has the support of USA Gymnastics, called the new sport acrobatics and tumbling in its proposal submitted late last year.

It uses a scoring system based on degree of difficulty – similar to gymnastics – and proposes 32 and 36 athletes per squad and a maximum of 12 scholarships.

The format submitted on Wednesday by USA Cheer, called stunt, is backed by Varsity Brands, which runs high schools and collegiate competitions and sells pompoms and uniforms.

Comparatively, it divides competitions into quarters with teams competing head-to-head, a squad averaging 20 to 30 athletes and a maximum of 24 scholarships.

Stepping out from the sidelines: Proponents say cheerleaders are not just girls dressed in skimpy outfits shaking pompoms, but some are highly-trained athletes

The NCAA could ask the groups to work together and submit a joint proposal.

However, there is no guarantee that it will qualify under Title IX guidelines if it is accepted to the emerging sport programme – a prerequisite for recognition as a championship sport.

In order to achieve that status, cheer programmes must treat their teams akin to other varsity athletic organisations.

Requirements include offering comparable financial support and competition and practice schedules, reports the Times.

The plight for national recognition is not aided by the fact many universities have themselves perpetuated the stereotype of cheerleaders as girls dressed in skimpy outfits and shaking pompoms, rather than a sport consisting of highly-technical stunts.

Bring It On! Kirsten Dunst starred in the 2000 comedy, perpetuating stereotypes about competing cheerleading squads

Competitive cheerleading proponents have resented the classification of sideline cheerleaders as competitive athletes, categorised by institutions in the past to dodge penalties for failing to offer acceptable sporting opportunities to women.

Lisa Maatz, director of public policy for the American Association of University Women, explained to the Times: ‘Traditional sideline cheerleading was always one of the places that schools wanted to go, not because they suddenly felt that it was a great way of boosting equity, but because it was as great way of boosting their rosters.’

ESPN appeared to quiet the debate in 1999, when the network went on the record declaring cheerleading a sport.

Since then, it has been a major proponent of competitive cheerleading, broadcasting national competitions into the homes of millions.

Women’s sports advocates are lending their support.

Nancy Hogshead-Makar, the senior director of advocacy at the Women’s Sports Foundation, compared competitive cheer to gymnastics or figure skating, calling it an ‘aesthetic sport that if done right could provide lots more girls with legitimate sports experiences’

She explained: ‘As long as it’s actually operating as a sport, we welcome it into the women’s sports tent.’

Barbara Osborne, a scholarship basketball player who graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside in 1982 and who now advises universities on gender-equity issues, echoed her sentiment.

‘Historically, cheerleading has been about supporting athletes, not about being an athlete,’ she said.

‘What we consider sports are things that men have traditionally played.’

‘It’s perfectly OK for girls to compete in something that is uniquely feminine. I think that we can’t just say that sports exist in ways that men define it.’

BROUGHT TO US By: DAILY MAIL REPORTER

Coral Gables Senior High Lady Cavalier – 2012 RTB

CenterStage Staff — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 04:18:32 +0000

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On Miami’s southern border
Reared against the sky,
Proudly stands our alma mater,
Coral Gables High.

Onward, upward, be our watchword,
Conquer and prevail.
Hail to thee our alma mater,
Coral Gables, hail!

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CenterStage Ladies Senior Level 2 – 2012 Daytona RTB Nationals

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Awesome show ladies. You rocked the stage once again. Perfect example of having spirit and what being a

cheerleader is. Keep up the hard work, and lets get it back at the next one. GREAT JOB!!

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CenterStage Shooting Stars Senior Coed Lv3 – 2012 Daytona RTB Nationals

CenterStage Staff — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 19:21:43 +0000

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Senior Level 3 at Daytona’s Reach the Beach 2012, in the rain. No really… in the rain. Tons of Heart all

around shown by this “team.” Representing Miami, the 305… and the 786… with a portrait of the YOLO motto.

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